Auteur: Prof James Chapman

The early twenty-first century has seen the emergence of a new style of television drama in Britain that adopts the professional practices and production values of high-end American television while …

This ground-breaking book takes as its focal point director Ken Loach’s view that ‘The only reason to make films that are a reflection on history is to talk about the present.’ In the first book to t …

The early twenty-first century has seen the emergence of a new style of television drama in Britain that adopts the professional practices and production values of high-end American television while …

Popular cinema is saturated with images and narratives of empire. With ‘Projecting Empire’, Chapman and Cull have written the first major study of imperialism and cinema for over thirty years. This w …

Eccentric, ironic and fantastic series like The Avengers and Danger Man, with their professional secret agents, or The Saint and The Persuaders, featuring flamboyant crime-fighters, still inspire mai …

Cinema and science fiction were made for each other. The science fiction genre has produced some of the most extraordinary films ever made, yet science fiction cinema is about more than just special …

Popular cinema is saturated with images and narratives of empire. With "Projecting Empire", Chapman and Cull have written the first major study of imperialism and cinema for over thirty yea …

Cinema and science fiction were made for each other. Science fiction has been at the cutting edge of film technology and the genre has produced some of the most ambitious, imaginative and visually sp …

Film historian James Chapman has mined Hitchcock’s own papers to investigate fully for the first time the spy thrillers of the world’s most famous filmmaker. Hitchcock made his name as director of th …

Film historian James Chapman has mined Hitchcock »s own papers to investigate fully for the first time the spy thrillers of the world »s most famous filmmaker. Hitchcock made his name as director of …